Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: RARA-AVIS Johnny Dollar

From: Mark Sullivan ( DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net)
Date: 23 Aug 2001


Brian wrote:

"Every hard-boiled buff should check out Johnny Dollar -- a definite treat. The writers were always able to have the show open with Johnny answering a telephone (that's how he announced himself at the beginning of the show), without being corny or contrived."

Ah, the prescursor of Rockford's answering machine! Did Roy Huggins have anything to do with Johnny Dollar? Probably not, wasn't he doing 77 Sunset Strip during that period?

Mark

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